Solutions Architect - Platform Migration

Job Title: Solution Architect – Platform Migration

Location: Birmingham or close by

Contract Type: Permanent

Start Date: ASAP

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to play a key role in EML Payments' large‐scale platform migration programme. This role focuses on the consolidation of multiple payment and card-processing platforms into a new unified ecosystem.

The successful candidate will possess strong experience in card processing, large-scale platform migrations, data transformation/ETL pipelines, and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.

Operating across engineering, product, operations, compliance, and partner ecosystems, you will define and govern solution architecture that ensures secure, compliant, resilient, and high-performing outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for the migration and consolidation of regional card-processing and payments platforms into a modern, unified global environment.
• Architect large-scale data migration and ETL processes, including data mapping, transformation logic, orchestration, validation, lineage, and technical implementation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex business requirements into data models and data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, migration runbooks, integration specifications, and integration patterns.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams during solution buildout, ensuring alignment to architectural standards.
• Work closley with compliance teams to ensure migration architectural designs meet regulatory obligations (PCI/DSS, PSD2, AML, GDPR, Electronic Money).
• Champion security-by-design principles across all components, with particular focus on card data handling, encryption, tokenisation, and access controls.
• Facilitate technical workshops and architectural design reviews with internal teams and external partners.

Key Skills & Experience

3+ years as a Solution Architect within fintech, payments, card issuing/acquiring, or financial services preferred.

• Experienced in large-scale platform, system and data migrations.

• Hands-on expertise in designing ETL and data integration pipelines (e.g., using Python, SQL-based orchestration, cloud-native ETL tools, messaging-based ingestion).
• Deep understanding of data engineering concepts, with hands-on experience in SQL Server, MongoDB, Synapse, Fabric, and Snowflake.
• Familiarity with card-processing systems, scheme integrations, authorisation flows, transaction life cycles, and settlement processes; knowledge of cryptographic key migrations like EMV and PEK is advantageous.
• Experience with architecting microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud services (Azure), and secure integration patterns.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with senior stakeholders, external partners, and technical teams.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical problem solving.

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF, BCS, or equivalent architectural accreditation.
• Experience migrating card programmes, card data, or payment processing engines.

Other

• If London based, able to work from the London office (City) at least one day per week.

Why Join?

This position is integral to EML Payments' objective of developing a unified global payments and card-processing platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing essential migration architecture spanning data, payments, and card processing, collaborating closely with both technology and business leaders. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to contribute to a global transformation program.

What you will be offered

If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone's different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success.

• 25 days annual leave plus 2 days for volunteering, plus your birthday off - Plus an additional Take5 days should you use all of your 25 days!
• Global business landscape that connects you with colleagues working throughout Australia, UK, North America and Europe with both short-term and long-term secondment options.
• Hybrid working - Be empowered to work smarter, in a way that suits your lifestyle
• Company Enhanced Family Leave Options*
• 12 weeks paid New Parent Leave*
• Paid Professional Memberships
• Pension Scheme*
• Short term bonus scheme*
• Company Private Medical Insurance Scheme
• Long term illness cover – 75% of your basic Annual Salary
• Life Assurance (Death in Service) Cover – 4x your basic Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme – accessible 24/7
• Benefits Hub – get discount vouchers for your favourite retailers

(*some benefits are subject to qualifying criteria)